Thursday, September 10, 2015

If you feel it is moral to express your sympathy for those Arabs who colonized and occupy all but a sliver of land in the Middle East - YJ Draiman



If you feel it is moral to express your sympathy for those Arabs who colonized and occupy all but a sliver of land in the Middle East, those who stone women to death, execute gays and rape little children? Those who kill people indiscriminately, suicide bombers, teach hate and violence to their children! 
If you believe that making Judaism illegal in every Arab country is OK? Really? The Arabs have also forced most Christians out of their countries. You leave me no choice then, but to assess you moral indignation as meaningless lawless revolting and vile. I laugh in astonishment at what hypocrites and naked bigots you are.

The UN under its Charter has no authority and cannot establish a country, it cannot supersede or modify international law and treaties. The UN under its charter can only recommend its resolutions and if it is accepted by the parties and signed as an agreement by the parties, it is valid, otherwise it has no validity of enforcement whatsoever. 
The Arabs rejected outright all the pertinent UN resolutions and therefore none of those UN resolutions are valid.
There was also the Faisal Weizmann Agreement signed and executed in London on January 3, 1919 which recognized Palestine as a Jewish territory.
The UN, other entities, other nations and organizations can put up flags for the fictitious Arab Palestinians. It does not mean nothing. Under International Law and treaties signed and executed by the Supreme Allied Powers after WWI. Arab states were created in Mesopotamia , Syria, Lebanon , etc totaling 5 million square miles.
The Balfour Declaration was incorporated into international treaty and Palestine aka Israel which is about 75,000 square miles was assigned to be the reconstituted Jewish National Home it its historical ancestral indigenous territory going back over 3500 years. The Jewish people has a continuous habitation of Palestine aka Israel for the past 4000 years and more. 
After 1948 the Arab countries persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets including over 110,000 square km. of land, which is about 6 times the size of Israel.
Most of the million expelled Jewish families were resettled in Israel and now comprise over half the population of Israel.
YJ Draiman

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Lies, deception, myths and Obama - Draiman


Lies, deception, myths and Obama
A lie is like a noxious and perennial weed that is almost impossible to root out. So it is with the other weed; the delusion and myth of an Arab people who call themselves Arab-Palestinians and who dream of their fictitious past living in a land that belonged to them for millennia with their delusional capital, Jerusalem.
But that is the same fertile magical Arab imagination that gave us The Thousand and One Arabian Nights replete with fantastic tales of magic, wizards and Ali Baba. Both, the claim of a distinct Arab people called Palestinians and the Thousand and One Nights are an equal delusion and fantasies in the Arab mind.
As a matter of fact the Arabs residing in Greater Israel today are: Arabs from SyriaEgyptLebanonIraqSaudi ArabiaAlgeriaLibyaSudan, etc.
The truth – not the delusion and fantasy – is that there was never an independent, sovereign Arab state called PalestineJerusalem was never the capital of any Arab polity in all of recorded history. Only one people has ever made Jerusalem its capital and only one people ever established their ancestral and biblical homeland between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea: the remaining indigenous Jewish people.
In the years before Israel was Internationally reconstituted in 1948, the world referred to its Jewish residents as Palestinians. Indeed, the Palestinian military units fighting with the British Army in World War Two were Jewish to the man and woman. Few, if any, Arabs or Muslims fought against the Axis powers during that war and indeed many served in SS units; often willing collaborators with the Germans in murdering Jewish communities in the Balkans and elsewhere.
Remember, the word Palestine was established by the Roman to anger the Jews and was carried forward and used during the Mandate for Palestine over the territory that was granted by the League of Nations in 1920 to Great Britainass trustee for the Jewish people with the express international legal obligation of establishing in Palestine a Jewish homeland. At that time, the Palestine Mandate covered all of what is Israel -including Judea and Samaria, or what is erroneously called the West Bank – and present day Jordan.
What so many in the media forget, if they ever knew, is that after the Ottoman Empire was dismantled by the victorious Allies, France and Britain, at the end of World War One, many new Arab states were created with Palestine reserved for a Jewish homeland under international treaties executed by the Supreme Allied Powers.
But Britain violated the international treaties and reneged on its obligation to the Jews and tore away four fifths of the Mandate for Palestine territory in 1922 – that is all the land east of the Jordan River – and arbitrarily gave it away to the Hashemite Bedouin tribe. Immediately Jews were forbidden to live in what became Trans-Jordan and eventually the Kingdom of Jordan: An early example of ethnic cleansing and a blatant Arab apartheid.
The borders of the Mandate for Palestine as eventually set, determined Arab State of Jordan East of the Jordan River and Israel all the land West of the Jordan River including Jerusalem.
The January 1919 Faisal-Weizmann agreement confirms those terms, that Palestine is for the Jews.
Interestingly, Arabs and their leaders had rejected any notion of a separate Palestinian identity. For them, Palestineregion was merely a part of Greater Syria and the Arabs were indistinct from their neighbors. Indeed, the Syrian dictator, Assad, still plots for the return of JordanIsrael and the disputed territories.
As far as Palestine was concerned to those Arab absentee landlords of the early years of the 20th century, living in the fleshpots of CairoDamascus and Beirut, the land was worthless: barren and malarial infested. Then the Jewish pioneers returning in the late 19th century began to purchase the wasted and barren land at exorbitant prices – much higher than fertile land in Iowa and Idaho – drain the swamps and redeem again the ancestral ancient beloved Jewish homeland.

Jewish development of the centuries old neglected and desolate land, restored in familial love through blood, sweat and tears, ironically it brought into the territory hundreds of thousands of illegal Arab aliens who found livelihoods that were unavailable in the stagnant and corrupt neighboring Arab societies.

The British authorities invariably turned a blind eye to the flood of Arab illegals seeing in them a stick to beat the Jewish residents. Herein lays the genesis of the present day Arab claim to all the land and their descendant’s stated threat to extirpate any and all Jewish life within its borders.

So many well-meaning people in the West, as well as latent anti-Semites, have fallen hook, line and sinker for the myth and delusion of an Arab-Palestinian homeland called Palestine. So many people now believe the delusion, fantasy and false claim by the well-funded Arab propaganda machine that the Jews came and stole it.
But though it sounds affecting and no doubt to the liberal mind particularly emotional with all the tugging of the heart strings that it implies, it is still an absolute lie and deception just like the weed that can never be fully uprooted.

For so many people who are either ignorant, turn a deaf ear or hard hearted towards the Jewish state, they are unaware and or refuse to believe that the Jews were the aboriginal indigenous inhabitants for two millennia before the Muslim religion was created and that Muslim armies swarmed out of Arabia with a Koran in one hand and a sword in the other to occupy vast territories in the name of Allah.
The pity is that the bible as history is there for all to read. Sadly, so many ignore what is written.
The Arabs have spread over 12 million square kilometers in the Middle East and into North Africa (the Maghreb). Israel’s territory is barely 21,000 square kilometers and may soon be reduced further if its biblical ancestral heartland of Judea and Samaria is torn from it to create in its midst a terror state called Palestine: the 23rd Arab state (just like Gaza).
When the world extends to the million Jewish refugees who were persecuted and expelled with all their assets confiscated from their millenium residence in the Arab lands nearly 70 years ago the same sympathetic obsession that they extend to the Arabs who needlessly left Israel at the urging's of the corrupt Arab League and the six attacking Arab armies, and when Arab-Palestinians stop indoctrinating its children and the masses to commit terror and violence, then there maybe hope for a better international community than what exists at the present time.

When the same world expresses horror and condemns Jordan for confiscating Jewish territory and assets and barring Jews over 80 years ago from living in what was the Palestine Mandate territory east of the Jordan River, and when the world condemns the so-called Arab-Palestinian Authority from barring Jews within its territory now and stop indoctrinating their children and the masses to commit terror and violence and glorify suicide bombers, then there may be equal hope for a redeemed international community.
Meanwhile the Jews – the real authentic indigenous Palestinians – strive to live within the miniscule territory that is the Jewish state, denied even one day of peace from their genocidal Arab and Muslim neighbors. And then there is the American president, Barack Hussein Obama, who will not rest until Israel crumbles under his malevolent gaze and swaggering intimidation.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

PHOTOGALLERY OF JERUSALEM, ISRAEL


PHOTOGALLERY OF JERUSALEM, ISRAEL  


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JERUSALEM PHOTOS

Russian Church of Maria Magdalena, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem Israel
'Russian Church of Maria Magdalena, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem Israel' by David Berkowitz @flickr
Komen Pink Lighting Ceremony
'Komen Pink Lighting Ceremony' by U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv @flickr
Western Wall
'Western Wall' by Cmsmith_Nz @flickr
Jerusalem
'Jerusalem' by Rictulio @flickr

Church of All Nations - The Basilica of the Agony - Jerusalem
'Church of All Nations - The Basilica of the Agony - Jerusalem' by David Berkowitz @flickr
Dome of the Rock - Temple Mount - Old City - Jerusalem
'Dome of the Rock - Temple Mount - Old City - Jerusalem' by Adam Jones, Ph.D. @flickr
Her majesty
'Her majesty' by Michele Benericetti @flickr
Jerusalem Synagogue
'Jerusalem Synagogue' by Danndalf @flickr
Jerusalem: Temple Mount
'Jerusalem: Temple Mount' by Jean &Amp; Nathalie @flickr
The Golden Gate of the Temple Mount
'The Golden Gate of the Temple Mount' by Ian W Scott @flickr
Jerusalem
'Jerusalem' by Nacholau @flickr

Jerusalem
'Jerusalem' by Tmesis @flickr

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

The Gates of Jerusalem -- The New Gate Part 7 of a Series on the Gates of Jerusalem's Old City


The New Gate (circa 1900), still unpaved
The Old City of Jerusalem is surrounded by four kilometers (2.5 miles) of walls built by the Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in 1540.  Seven gates serve as points of entry into the Old City, but the New Gate is just that -- relatively new.   Unlike the other ancient gates, the New Gate was opened in 1889 by the Ottomans, giving direct access to the Christian Quarter of the Old City.

Benefiting the most were the Christian residents of the nearby Russian Compound and the French Notre Dame hospice across the street.  The New Gate is located between the Jaffa Gate and the Damascus Gate.
"Arab demonstration at the New Gate. Police
cordon stopping the procession, Oct. 13, 1933"
View the Jaffa Gate clash here
In 1933 Arab riots broke out in Jerusalem and clashes with British police erupted at the New Gate and the Jaffa Gate of the Old City.

The riot at Jaffa Gate.  "Demonstrators
 facing police baton charge"


What triggered the 1933 riots? 

According to the British Mandate Annual Report for 1933, 
Arab discontent on account of Jewish immigration and the sale of lands to Jews, which has been a permanent feature of political opinion in Palestine for the past ten years, began to show signs of renewed activity from the beginning of 1933, developing in intensity until it reached a climax in the riots of October and November. [Editor's note: 15 years before Israel's creation.] ... This [immigration] increase found its origin mainly in the favourable economic conditions of the country, due to a large extent to influx of Jewish capital and to consequent creation of new openings for employment.

The British report also provided the casualty count as a result of the terrorists:

[T]he collision of Arab demonstrators with the Police resulted in five constables and eleven civilians being slightly injured. The total casualties in the subsequent rioting in Jaffa, Jerusalem, Haifa and Nablus were one constable and twenty-four civilians killed or died of wounds, twenty-eight constables and two hundred and four civilians wounded.
Iron gates restricted passage
through the New Gate in 1937

In 1938 the British sealed the
New Gate
During the Arab Revolt (1936-1939) British authorities were quick to close the New Gate to prevent free movement of rioters and marauding gangs.

In 1948, Jewish fighters failed to break through the gates of the Old City to relieve the fighters in the Jewish Quarter and to conquer the Old City.

The Israeli Defense Forces captured the Old City in June 1967 and opened the New Gate for traffic and pedestrians.


The New Gate today. (photo
by Daniel Baranekpublished
with permission)
See previous photo essays on the Zion GateDamascus Gate,Golden GateDung Gate, Jaffa Gate and Lions Gate.

 The next gate: Herod's Gate.

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Click on the captions to see the originals.

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CONFLICTING ARAB AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE BALFOUR DECLARATION


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CONFLICTING ARAB AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE BALFOUR DECLARATION

On 2nd November 1917, one month before British troops under General Allenby entered Jerusalem, the British Government made the following declaration in a letter from Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Rothschild, President of the British Zionist Federation:

 Lord Balfour
Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
"His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour


A leading figure in seeking the Declaration was Chaim Weizmann, a Jewish research chemist from Russia who had represented the British Zionist Federation in the negotiations. As chief scientist working for the British Admiralty, Weizmann had invented a process for synthesizing acetone, an essential component in the production of cordite for munitions. As a result he had the opportunity to personally convey the intensity and urgency of Jewish feeling on the issue to Prime Minister Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, both of whom were men with a knowledge of the Biblical history, and essentially in sympathy with the Zionist cause.

Most importantly, the British government saw the Balfour Declaration as providing a legitimate basis for a British protectorate over Palestine after the War. However they also sought support for the Allies among the five million Jews of Russia after the Social Democratic February revolution of 1917; as well as the Jews of the United States.

(As it happened, the Bolshevik revolution of 7 November 1917 came five days after the Balfour Declaration, and Soviet Russia unilaterally ceased hostilities against Germany almost immediately.)

The Initial Arab Response
In December 1918 Weizmann met the Emir Faisal, the leader of the Arab forces in the war and the son of Hussein, the Sherif of Mecca, at Ma'an in southern Transjordan. Weizmann and Faisal reached an agreement. The document written in January 1919 contained the following preamble:
“mindful of the racial kinship and ancient bonds existing between the Arabs and the Jewish people, and realising that the surest means of working out the consummation of their national aspirations, is through the closest possible collaboration in the development of the Arab State and Palestine, and being desirous further of confirming the good understanding which exists between them, have agreed upon the following articles:”
The agreement contemplated the drawing of new national boundaries between Palestine and “the Arab State” which would be negotiated as part of the post-war settlement. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Faisal conveyed the spirit of the agreement in a letter which he sent to United States Justice Frankfurter, leader of the American Zionist delegation: “The Jewish movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in Syria for us both...We shall welcome the Jews back home.”  
Nevertheless, in March 1920, a Syrian congress held in Damascus rejected the Balfour Declaration and elected Faisal King of a united Syria which was to include Palestine. The French then deposed Faisal in July 1920, and he later became King of Iraq under a British mandate.


1920 The Treaty of San Remo and the Palestine Mandate

At the allied conference at San Remo, in April 1920, at which the Allied Powers determined the fate of the former Turkish possessions, the Balfour Declaration was approved, and it was agreed that a mandate to Britain should be formally given by the League of Nations over the area which now comprises Israel, Jordan and the Golan Heights, which was to be called the "Mandate of Palestine". The Balfour Declaration was to apply to the whole of the mandated territory. The Treaty also contemplated an “appropriate Jewish agency” to represent the Jewish population and this was established as the elected Jewish authority in Palestine under the title of “the Jewish Agency”.   


Britain and the Hashemite dynasty

Meanwhile, the Hashemite dynasty of Hussein of Mecca faced difficulties in Arabia. Between 1919 and 1925 King Ibn Sa'ud recovered his ancient family kingdom in Riyadh in central Arabia, defeated the Hashemites and annexed their kingdom of the Hejaz on the Western coast. The newly created Kingdom of Sa’udi Arabia opened its doors to the American oil companies and developed a close relationship with the United States.
       
Unable to fulfil their commitments to the Hashemites on the Arabian Peninsula, the British decided to divide the area of the Palestine Mandate in 1922 by establishing a Hashemite Emirate of Transjordan on the eastern bank of the Jordan under the Emir Abdullah, a son of the Sherif Hussain of Mecca. At the same time his brother Faisal was to become King of Iraq under another British Mandate

The treaty of San Remo which was ratified by the League of Nations in July 1922 was therefore amended in September 1922. The British Mandate still extended over the whole of Palestine on both sides of the Jordan River, but a clause was added excluding Transjordan from the operation of the Balfour Declaration, which was therefore now limited to the western side of the river. The British then installed the Emir Abdullah as ruler of Transjordan under British tutelage.1 In 1946 Transjordan gained its independence as "The Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan"

In 1923 the Golan Heights was ceded by Britain from Palestine to the French Mandate of Syria, in exchange for an adjacent region on what was to become the Lebanese border.


The British Mandate 1922 - 1948

Great Britain's Division of the Mandated Area,
1921 - 1923
Notes:
This is the territory held by Britain under the Mandate agreed upon in the Treaty of San Remo in 1920 and formally granted by the League of Nations in 1922. The Mandate incorporated the provisions of the Balfour Declaration, “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
In 1922 Trans-Jordan was separated from the Jewish national home. In 1946, the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan gained its independence, and Israel became independent in 1948.
The Golan was ceded to the French Mandate of Syria in 1923 in exchange for a smaller adjacent area on the Lebanese border.

The Jewish Response to the Balfour Declaration – Immigration to Palestine

Between 1919 and 1923, some 40,000 Jews, mainly from Eastern Europe, arrived in Palestine. Many had been trained in agriculture in the European Zionist movements and established settlements of the type pioneered by the early arrivals, and on land purchased with funds raised by Jewish communities throughout the world.2  The dominant ideology was socialist, and this found expression in the development of unique social and economic enterprises, such as the Kibbutzim3, the Moshavim4 and the Histadrut.5 During this period malarial swamps were drained and converted to agricultural use, and national institutions such as an elected Jewish assembly and the Haganah voluntary defense force were established.
        
Between 1924 and 1929, 82,000 Jews arrived, mainly as a result of anti-Semitic outbreaks in Poland and Hungary, and at a time when the immigration quotas of the United States kept Jews out. This group contained many middle class families who moved to the growing towns, establishing small businesses and light industry. Of these approximately 23,000 left the country to escape the harsh economic conditions.

Between 1929 and 1939, with the rise of Nazism in Germany, a new wave of some 250,000 immigrants arrived. Of these about 174,000 arrived between 1933 and 1936, after which the British imposed increasing restrictions on Jewish immigration. Many of those who fled from Germany as Nazi racial laws were introduced, were qualified professionals. Refugee architects introduced the “modern” style which characterised Tel Aviv as it rose from the sand dunes, and refugee musicians founded the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra. The port at Haifa and its oil refineries were completed and new industrial development transformed the economy.
       
The Jewish population in Palestine thus increased from about 85,000 in 1919 to 678,000 by 1946.  uring the same period, the development of the country attracted substantial Arab immigration, and the Arab population doubled from about 600,000 to 1,269,000.

1920 -1939 The Arab Response to Jewish Immigration
In April 1920, during the British Military Occupation which preceded the Mandate, the Arabs of Palestine rioted in protest against Jewish settlement. In Jerusalem the riots took the form of violent attacks on the Jewish population. In Galilee, armed groups attacked Jewish settlers.
        
On 1 May 1921 a Jewish Labor Day march was attacked and 47 Jews were killed.
        
In August 1929 a dispute at the Western Wall6 in Jerusalem flared into riots which spread throughout the country. The Jewish community in Hebron (the burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) was wiped out. In all 133 Jews were killed and many hundreds were wounded.

In December 1931 a Muslim Conference in Jerusalem attended by 22 countries denounced Zionism, and in 1933 a boycott of British and Zionist goods was proclaimed.
        
In April 1936 the Arab political parties formed an Arab Higher Committee under the presidency of Haj Amin El Husseini, the Mufti [7] of Jerusalem and head of the influential Husseini clan.  A general strike was proclaimed, which lasted for six months. Armed groups were again organised to attack Jewish settlements, and the violence developed into revolt against the British and a war against the Jews which became known as the "Great Uprising" of 1936-1939.
         
In 1937, when the British outlawed the Arab Higher Committee, the Mufti fled from Palestine to Nazi Germany where he established close relations with the government. Here he endorsed and offered assistance in Hitler's "final solution" of the Jewish problem.

(See The Mufti in Berlin for the official record of a conversation with Adolf Hitler). 

1920-1939 The British reaction

The emergence of the economic centrality of oil in the 1920’s, and the discovery of vast oil fields in the Persian Gulf area, added a further crucial dimension to the strategic significance of the Middle East as a whole.  From now on, the maintenance of an economic and military presence in the area became even more essential to British policy. This required both friendly relations with the Arab world and the maintenance of strategic bases in the Middle East.
In Palestine this strategic necessity was translated by the Mandatory administration into a need to find a balance between maintaining good relations with the Arab world and at the same time continuing the Mandate on the basis of the Balfour Declaration.
          
The British therefore responded to the Arab riots of 1921, 1929 and 1936-8 by instituting commissions of inquiry, holding Royal Commissions and issuing policy statements in the form of “White Papers”, which gradually and progressively closed the gates of Palestine to Jewish immigration and settlement. The 1922 Churchill White Paper limited immigration to the “economic absorptive capacity of the country”. The 1930 policy statement restricted the transfer of land to Jews.
          
In 1937 the Royal Commission presided over by Lord Peel came to the conclusion that the Mandate was unworkable, and proposed a partition plan. The plan proposed that the cities of Tel Aviv, Jaffa and Jerusalem and the corridor between them (including the Arab towns of Lod and Ramle) should remain under British control, that the remaining area should be divided between Arab and Jewish states, and that Jewish immigration should be strictly limited. The Jewish reaction to the plan was ambivalent. The Arabs were strongly opposed and stepped up their revolt.

Peel Commission Partition Plan 1937



©Martin Gilbert, from The Arab-Israel Conflict - Its History in Maps
FOOTNOTES
[1] The background negotiation was very complicated. The Hashemites claimed Syria (including Palestine and Lebanon) and Iraq as independent Arab Kingdoms. The allies had agreed that Britain would take mandates over Palestine and Iraq, and that France would have a mandate over Syria. Matters were resolved at meeting between Abdullah and the British in March 1921 in Cairo, at which it was agreed that Faisal would rule Iraq, and Abdullah would take Transjordan, both under British tutelage, and that Abdullah would receive a regular “subsidy”.
[2]. In 1900 the World Zionist Organisation had created the Jewish National Fund which raised money for the purchase and development of land, mainly from blue coin boxes found in most Jewish homes.
[3]. Plural of Kibbutz. Communal agricultural settlements based on pure socialist principles ("to each according to need; from each according to capacity”)
[4] Plural of Moshav. Co-operative villages with varying degrees of communal ownership.
[5] The trade union movement, both protecting workers and actively engaged in large-scale industrial enterprise, for which capital could not otherwise be raised.
[6] The only remnant of the destroyed Jewish Temple.
[7] The official Muslim religious leader, as approved by the Mandatory authority.